Meet the team

PelicanCorp have established a highly skilled management team, which when coupled with our overall organizational capability, offers a strong competitive advantage and is a fundamental driver to our success globally.

"Individuals can and do make a difference, but it takes a team to really shake things up."

Management Team

DuaneRodgers

Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of PelicanCorp and a member of the company's board of directors, Duane has over 35 years' technology industry leadership and executive management experience, with the past 25 specifically focussed on damage prevention and the global One Call industry. Duane manages corporate direction and strategy at PelicanCorp and is the leading strategic head of all international deployments of the One Call solution. He is active in sharing PelicanCorp's mission and vision with clients, partners, and shareholders.

MarcusEdwards

Chief Product Officer

As a founding director and board member of PelicanCorp, Marcus has been serving the One Call industry across the UK and Australia for over 20 years'. As the head of Product across the range of PelicanCorp techonology solutions, he with the support of his team of product managers are responsible for the ongoing product management and roadmaps of the software systems globally. Prior to taking on the global Product role, Marcus was the the Managing Director of PelicanCorp's UK One Call service LinesearchbeforeUdig.

HeinrichZepter

Chief Information Officer

With over 25 years' industry experience across a wide range of disciplines, Heinrich is responsible for PelicanCorp's technical direction and driving a "Security First" model across the organization. As Chief Information Officer, he provides leadership for the continued development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment. He manages the Technical and GIS Teams to deliver global infrastructure, applications, security and services for both internal and external customers.

AdamPaver

Chief Finance Officer

Adam is a finance professional with extensive local and offshore experience across multiple sectors. With over 10 years' under his belt at PelicanCorp, Adam has an intimate understanding of the business and a deep appreciation for the importance of the asset protection industry. As an important component of the senior management group that has grown PelicanCorp into a multiple jurisdiction leader in its field, Adam places a strong emphasis on team work and the empowerment of staff.

DennyMichael

Chief Marketing Officer

Denny brings over 25 years of innovative marketing and sales programs to PelicanCorp. Denny manages the end-to-end marketing strategy and operations: brand, messaging, corporate communications, product marketing, analyst relations, demand generation, field marketing, and event marketing. Denny emphasizes a creative work environment, empowering and encouraging his marketing team to deliver their best efforts.

ThomasYoung

Vice President Sales - North America

Thomas C. Young is a veteran business leader with 25 years of promoting best-in-class products worldwide. With a broad background in building customer relationships, he has led sales, marketing, and customer service teams in several technical arenas. As a former Director of Business Development in the Utility and Asset Mapping industry, he is involved heavily in underground damage prevention. Thomas emphasizes the importance of teamwork, integrity, and the building of long-term business relationships.

NickHolly

Sales Director - APAC

Being exposed to nearly every market PelicanCorp operates in over the past 20 years' has provided Nick with a wealth of knowledge and experience. The damage prevention industry is developing at a rate unseen across the globe, particularly in the US. Nick is working closely with the growing US customer base and with the local and international internal teams to ensure PelicanCorp are at the leading edge and adapting product strategies accordingly.

Jan-WillemNijman

Sales Director - EMEA

Jan-Willem has over 30 years' of experience in the industrial automation and techonology industry. He has held several senior management positions at different globally operating companies. For over half of his career he has been actively operating in an international business growth environment. As the dedicated Sales Director across EMEA, Jan-Willem is bringing the value of beforeUdig to the region and building a loyal network of partners and clients.

MichaelPegam

Sales Director - Geolantis

Michael Pegam has been working in the utility industry for more than 20 years. He was founder and CEO of Geolantis-an Austrian based company developing cutting-edge, future oriented spatial solutions for the locating & utility industry. Their core focus is cloud enabled mobile solution to manage field crews in locating & surveying. The flagship product is called Geolantis.360. It is a cloud-based platform with mobile apps to manage mobile workforces and map & survey above and underground infrastructure. Michael is responsible for partnerships and the strategic growth of PelicanCorp's Geolantis products. His vision is a utility industry without accidents.

KarlGeppert

Chief Development Officer

Karl has worked in application development and software solution delivery for global markets for over two decades. He’s gone through the ranks of developer to solution designer and architect for safety critical web solutions. He is responsible for providing a range of solutions to real-world problems which are guaranteed to save lives, time and money and have been used by leading corporations and organizations across the world.

StephenRieben

Senior VP One Call Operations

Stephen began his career in 1978 as Manager of the Connecticut State “Call Before You Dig” program. An industry expert, Stephen is called upon to educate industry user groups and stakeholders, and will often find him presenting at various events, as he continues to work at both local and national levels with utilities and Public Utility Regulators to foster legislation revision and regulations that pertain to excavation near underground utility facilities.

AndrewHealy

Country Manager - NZ

Andrew has an extensive background working with Local Government and Utilities delivering solutions across multiple departments. He is key to ensuring NZ utilities, central and local government capture the asset protection and H&S benefits of beforeUdig. Across NZ Andrew strives to bring a ‘next level’ of value and benefit to the industry, delivering innovative software solutions and programmes and promoting best practice for protection of infrastructure and life.

BryonSackville

General Manager - Canada

Bryon has over 22 years' experience in the protection of overhead and underground infrastructure in the Province of Ontario. He has held Senior Management positions within the contracting industry, including the role as the first Centre Manager for Ontario One Call. As the General Manager for Canada Bryon often speaks at industry events on various topics and has participated as a government representative on several commercial Boards and committees.

MarioBisson

VP Operations - Canada

Mario Bisson is a computer technician with an educational background in business administration from HEC Montréal. He worked for TelDig, a well-known damage prevention software company, from 1997 to 2018. He started his career as a Software Developer, and then became Technical Support Representative, Head of Operations and President. Since the acquisition of TelDig by PelicanCorp in November 2018, Mario is now the Vice-President Operations of PelicanCorp Canada.

EvaCrawford

Call Center Manager - Kentucky

With over 12 years' at PelicanCorp, Eva is the Center Manager for the After Hours Emergency and Disaster Recovery Center, and with her team handles all calls related to underground utilities markings after hours. Her experience in the Damage Prevention industry affords the knowledge of preparedness, urgency and quality of service needed for an emergency and disaster recovery call center. She maintains the quality of her staff on call 24/7, as it's critical to the centers success.

AnthonyWillemain

Call Center Manager - Connecticut

Anthony manages the operations for Call Before You Dig (CBYD) in Connecticut. He built a foundation of knowledge on industry best practice and laws during his 8 years in the after-hours disaster recovery call-center in Kentucky. His knowledge of the call-center operation helps him drive innovation and development for the PelicanCorp software solutions, and he actively provides Damage Prevention education to contractors and utilities across the state.

LorettaStrangis

Call Center Manager - ANZ

Loretta brings to the team over 15 years’ experience in Managing a Contact Center and her focussed responsibilities are on managing the daily operations of the Support and Contact Center for across ANZ. Working closely with Utility members she is driven by motivating her staff members to provide excellent customer service. Her objectives are to analyze call center metrics, ensure that the company and staff meet goals and always provide reliable, efficient support.

Business Development Team

JohnLockton

Business Development Manager - QLD/NT/WA Australia

John has a Masters in GIS and is approaching 30 years' of experience in the spatial industry, including 20 years' of sales experience working with commercial organizations as well as local, state and federal government. He is the PelicanCorp BDM with responsibility for QLD, NT and WA. John works directly with his clients to help provide them with the right solution to meet their problems and as a result aid them in driving value and benefits to their businesses.

LonionChen

Business Development Manager - China

As a former core product developer at PelicanCorp, Lonion has over 11 years' of experience directly within the One Call industry and provides the team at PelicanCorp with a deep understanding of the One Call platform and its surrounding solutions. With his Chinese background and extensive network resources, Lonion is now working as the Business Development Manager for China, to establish the One Call service in the region with key stakeholders in the market.

JasonManning

Business Development Manager - Canada

Throughout 25 years' in North American damage prevention Jason has seen the industry from both client and supplier sides of the business. As one of the first employees at Quebec’s Info Excavation, he worked with the center from day one. Since then he has worked with dozens of One Calls, utilities and locators as a technology supplier. Jason works directly to engage the Canadian stakeholders and ensure the PelicanCorp solutions are easily integrated into the mix.

RicardoMahoney

Business Development Manager – North America

With over 25 years’ sales and marketing experience in the software industry, Ricardo has a genuine passion for sales strategies with a view towards identifying areas for revenue growth and margin improvement. He is a member of the CCGA National Marketing & Education Committee, the CGA Tech Committee and the CGA Educational Programs & Marketing Committee. Ricardo holds an M.A. Economics at Concordia University specializing in Econometrics.

MarkGill

Business Development Manager - Sydney Australia

As an experienced executive with a history of success in the leadership and growth of IT companies spanning Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Mark has extensive knowledge within the Enterprise software, Cloud and SaaS markets. Mark is passionate about delivering quality value and service to his customers whilst providing positive change through technology and creating sustained and trusted relationships to help our customers succeed through a unified platform to help industry professionals manage risk and build quality projects. By providing best practices for the collaboration, management and protection of essential assets while minimizing the costs. Mark is responsible for the NSW/ACT and SA regions within the Australian market.

SidMunivelu

Account Director VIC/TAS Australia

Sid has a Masters in Business Administration and brings well over 18 years of experience in Sales, Business development and Account management roles working across multiple industries including Telecommunications, Information Technology and Supply Chain / Logistics. This includes a wealth of sales experience working with senior stakeholders in Local, State, Federal Government authorities as well as commercial organisations and is the PelicanCorp Account Director responsible for primarily the VIC/TAS region and some key national accounts in the AU market. Sid is passionate about helping his clients achieve their organisational goals and maximise their investments by providing them with innovative cloud based solutions for the protection of their critical and essential infrastructure.

About PelicanCorpPelicanCorp is a niche provider of software and services to Utilities, Asset owners and to the Before You Dig industry specifically for the 'Protection of Essential Infrastructure'.